Data Center Plant Engineer, Controls

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

* Associate's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or

equivalent degree program, or equivalent practical experience.

* 7 years of experience in Controls/Automation in an industrial or commercial

environment.

* Experience with Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Electrical

Power Monitoring Systems (EPMS), or Building Management Systems (BMS),

including monitoring, alarming configuration, troubleshooting, and graphical

user interface/Human-Machine Interface (HMI) operation.

* Experience diagnosing software/hardware errors and managing Linux operating

systems within an industrial control environment.

* Experience troubleshooting, programming, or designing Programmable Logic

Controller (PLC) or Distributed Control System (DCS) architectures (e.g.,

Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Schneider Electric).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* 10 years of experience working in data centers, manufacturing, power plants,

or transmission operations.

* Direct experience with protective relay configuration, coordination, and

testing for medium-to-high voltage power distribution systems including

industrial network design (VLANs, routing, switching, and subnets) for

automation

* Experience overseeing security patching, firmware updates, access

control/identity management, and vulnerability remediation for both hardware

devices and host operating systems.

* Experience configuring, troubleshooting, and networking Variable Frequency

Drives (VFDs) and other industrial assets over Modbus, TCP/IP or EtherNet/IP.

* Deep expertise in data center infrastructure and systems, such as facility

monitoring and control systems, thermal dynamics, fluid mechanics, or

electrical power distribution networks in a critical environment.

* Experience collaborating with other business units to meet company goals and

standards.

ABOUT THE JOB:

As a Plant Engineer at Google specializing in Controls and Automation, you will

be a key site technical leader ensuring the reliability, efficiency, and

continuous improvement of our critical data center infrastructure . You will

bridge the gap between day-to-day operations and high-level systems engineering,

taking ownership of the site’s Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs),

Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

(SCADA) platforms, and Building Management Systems (BMS). As a Plant engineer,

you will form the technical backbone of the data center operations team,

leveraging subject matter expertise to work daily with senior facility

technicians and facility management in the continued operation of the site.

In this role, you will apply engineering theory to optimize critical cooling and

power sequences, manage operational risks, and drive key sustainability metrics

like Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE). As an

advocate for best practices, you develop creative approaches to reducing

operational costs while improving overall data center efficiency. You ensure

that environmental and safety standards are consistently met, identifying

problems and making repairs quickly. In emergency situations or abnormal

conditions, you manage data center performance issues and outages to minimize

the recovery time from failures.Behind everything our users see online is the

architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From

developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next-generation of

Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be

our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so

we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users

have the best and fastest experience possible.Individual pay is determined by

factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or

training.

US: $122000 - $173000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Provide effective leadership for successful critical system troubleshooting,

unit commissioning, and repairs/replacements with minimal supervision in

quality, quantity, and timeliness as assigned.

* Serve as the site’s subject matter expert (SME) on controls systems, such as

SCADA interfaces, control loops, automation, instrumentation, etc.

* Analyze telemetry data to optimize mechanical cooling and electrical power

efficiency, while collaborating with design engineers to bring a practical

operational mindset to new infrastructure.

* Partner with global engineering teams to resolve complex technical challenges

and implement infrastructure changes, while reviewing and approving highly

technical Methods of Procedure (MOPs) and Standard Operating Procedures

(SOPs).

* Respond to critical data center events and alarms and be responsible for

being a point of escalation on operational issues. Provide critical

engineering support for Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations.